Intermediate Jewelry Fabrication Session 1 with: Steven Parker

Students are encouraged to design and fabricate their own original designs, or are welcome to learn and work on projects that have been previously offered in the studio. Creative designs often require creative fabrication solutions, and such solutions for individual projects will be demonstrated for the entire class to benefit.

In addition to individual projects, each class will devote some time at the beginning of class to demonstrations of techniques that may be unfamiliar. The images shown are projects completed in previous Intermediate sessions, and at the start of the session we will choose a new central project to learn new techniques and procedures to build on the skills we have. Such a project might involve exploring flexible connections for earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, interesting clasps mechanical systems, and various ways of setting stones both round and fancy shapes.

Steven Parker is an Adjunct Professor in the Jewelry Design Department at FIT in New York.
He is also a certified Rhino trainer, teaching Rhino3D, a CAD modeling program widely used in jewelry and other industries. Steven went through his apprenticeship at Oscar Heyman, a manufacturer of the very finest precious stone jewelry, and later returned there to manage production. He spent time working in the toy industry, developing and manufacturing products that took adantage of his expertise and love of all things mechanical. Currently, in addition to teaching he consults with clients on all phases of jewelry manufacture from design and prototyping to production.
To learn more about Steven and to see some of his work please click here